Blocked @mayorquimby123 for persistent bad faith debating but thought it was worth giving this a broader audience:
Defenders of Victorian Group Ticket Voting often argue that everything's fine because voters can easily just vote 1-5 and stop BTL. They're wrong. #VicVotes
Defenders of Victorian Group Ticket Voting often argue that everything's fine because voters can easily just vote 1-5 and stop BTL. They're wrong. #VicVotes
The reason they're wrong in terms of fairness to voters is that a 1-5 and stop BTL vote is not a fully effective vote. It helps only 1-3 parties then exhausts. The effort barrier to expressing your own preferences between *all* parties is much greater.
Under GTV a voter who fully agrees with their party ticket can give full preferences by just numbering one box. A voter who does not agree with any party ticket needs to number every box to do so. That effort barrier is plainly and simply politically discriminatory and wrong.
There are also numerous reasons unrelated to direct fairness to voters why GTV is wrong (unaccountable MPs, encouraging corruption, thralldom to preference harvesters, disincentives to minor parties polling too well, risks to successful completion of counts and so on.)
(* A 1-5 and stop BTL could help 5 parties if you voted for effective candidates from 5 different parties but virtually nobody does that.)
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